PROPOSAL FOR FINAL PROJECT: Non Linear Time

PRESENTATION IDEA

Presenting non- linear time involves breaking from the single direction of time's arrow. Putting aside the logical progression from point A to point B in time, we break time by rearranging moments, going backwards, repetition, looping, changing durations and speeds and create multiple branch offs or progressions.

For My Final Project for Time class, I have decided to present “the action of applying make up over your face, while at the same time, along the process the person putting the make-up is always not sure and tries to undo every time, in every step of the way. I am going to be filming a friend who will be sitting inside an empty room with a mirror in front of her face, depicting her reflection. The process of Make up trial deals with sequential steps but I will film her face all dressed up with makeup as my first shot and will gradually show the whole process from backwards and also by rearranging certain moments and putting layers, and different filters on it.

Non Linear PART of My Project:

·      The starting of the video backwards showing a girl with fully covered makeup and the last shot being her being without the makeup, depicting a whole different image through that.

·      Secondly I’ll be breaking the process of doing anything in a chronological order and instead there will be repetition as she will be doing and undoing her makeup all this while.

For sound of the film, I am not too sure yet as I want to have a positive but at the same time a kind of dark reflection as a background score. Still figuring out if I’ll have a voice over the video.

My Inspiration for this project is from The Odyssey by Homer in which one of the characters named Penelope who spends all her day long just weaving. And during the whole process she is deliberately unraveling it. She starts off spinning her thread, which prolongs for a while. But we understand the feeling she goes through as a woman who really did have to spend most of her life ensuring that her household was clothed, even regular weaving would have felt endless. At the end showing her obsession with textiles too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD4BIVskN9M